At the main event tonight at UFC 100, Brock Lesnar pinned Frank Mir to the mat early in the second round, unleashed a barrage of shots at Mir’s head and the fight was stopped at the
1:48 mark. He remains UFC heavyweight champion. The fight was mostly uneventful
and the Mandalay Bay Events Center crowd booed Lesnar. … In an earlier fight, Georges St. Pierre retained his welterweight title by winning a tough
five-round decision against Thiago Alves.
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A Henderson physician who says he treated Danny Gans for pain told the Review-Journal on Thursday that the first and last time he wrote Gans a prescription for hydromorphone — the potent drug determined by the coroner to be the cause of the popular entertainer’s accidental death — was five years ago.
Who hasn’t had one of those days where you have been busy all day but don’t feel like you’ve accomplished anything. It could be because you spent half of your time looking for a key piece needed to complete a project.
Q: We want to spruce up a few rooms in our house with chair rail and add cabinets on some of our walls. My husband is a perfectionist and wants everything lined up like a Marine drill team. My question is about making sure everything is perfectly level. I have thought about a laser level, but I doubt I would ever use it again. Any ideas?
Over the years in this column we’ve seen bathrooms to fit every style, shape and budget. Today I want to focus on how we live with those bathrooms, regardless of style, size or number of folks using them.
I will be conducting a class on growing peaches in Southern Nevada on June 17 from 2-4 p.m. and again from 7-9 p.m. The class is free of charge and is intended to encourage small-scale production of peaches, as well as backyard growing. I will be covering which peaches have done the best for us at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener’s demonstration orchard, proper planting, watering and fertilizing, as well as pest control.
• LAKE MEAD — Fishing along the beaches between Hemenway and the swim beach has picked up in the past week. Keep in mind, fishing is prohibited within the marked swimming area. Most anglers are netting shad in the morning and using them as bait. Anglers are still catching stripers in the Vegas Arm with live shad and top-water lures. The best time for stripers has been in the morning before the winds come up or late afternoon. Catfish action should be good in the coves during the cooler hours of the day.
ESPN college basketball writer Andy Katz drew up a short list — that includes former UNLV star Reggie Theus — of potential candidates for the Southern California coaching job.
UNLV interior offensive line coach Keith Uperesa underwent surgery for thyroid cancer last month, but there is hope the disease was discovered early enough.
Mariah Hobbs’ athleticism, field vision and distribution are “everything you could ask for in a midfielder,” Bishop Gorman girls soccer coach Lora Feely said.
Many in college football recruiting circles already knew of Garic Wharton’s speed before his junior track season.
With his future in the balance, Bishop Gorman High School first baseman Jeff Malm said he was troubled by “all the uncertainty” he sensed going into the major league draft.